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– Today’s comic is from Kornelyuk Gennady, who is responsible for the ongoing Russian Modest Medusa translation. Thanks! I’m starting to get over my sick and I’m using the time to pencil some new pages, but I’m not well enough that I feel up to inking or coloring yet. So it may still be a few days till you see new pages, although I’m hoping I’ll have something for you all soon.

– By now you’ve noticed the new site design? Thank jaPoshi of Waste of Ink Studios. The whole thing was 100% his design. I really dig it, and I hope you all do to.

Haha, that’s awesome. I actually love the running lupus gag associated with House. mostly because I actually do have lupus. It’s a great way to get the disease into the public mindset because there’s no cure for it…yet. 🙂

I do like the new page. As much as I get geezeritis about some things changing (give me back my old Gmail!) this does look pretty nice. Basic, but not in a bad way. I may miss the little repeating Medusa in the back ground, but it’s okay.
I hope you get well soon! I hope I get well soon. too! I thought I was getting better, but then suddenly I got an infection where I had a tooth extraction. Combined with my previous evil flu, it kicked my ass! Now I am finally on antibiotics and I am hopeful that I am improving. It probably doesn’t help that I force myself to keep going either… I even decided to miss school Wednesday, which isn’t good, but better than missing tomorrow at school, can’t miss Friday. Exams to proctor. =

Love the new design, especially for one reason: remember that delay in the page loading I mentioned last week? It’s gone now, pages load almost instantly, for me. So as far as I can tell, whatever was causing it jaPshi got rid of it. Suh-weet!

I’m glad you’re seeing an improvement in the loading speed. It was a concern, considering the amount of graphics I was using. I did have to rewrite some source code to help things run smoothly, looks like it paid off. ^_^

Sorry you are sick. I made up a comic to mark the occasion (please see Dropbox link below). I hope you can use it as filler. No lie, this took me an hour in Photoshop and it still sucks. But I am forever a fan.

I like the new design.
Just a shame the background doesn’t tile properly.. both vertically and horizontally.
Not particularly keen on the ‘next’ and ‘back’ buttons either, they look a bit too sketchy compared to the rest.
Still, I like the new design, its nice and simple. Or as one of my old bosses would say “to the point and without frills”.

Hmmm, to which bg do you refer? The main spiral bg is static, not tiled, so it’s not meant to repeat in any direction. It’s supposed to hug the top-right wall of the page and that’s it. As for the bg that’s behind the comic/description/comments, that one is tiled and gets cut off quite often due to comicpress’ use of multiple tables. Granted, if I had used a solid colour instead of incorporating a design into it, this wouldn’t be a problem, but since on most pages you’ll only notice this bg in the comments section, I excepted the flaw. Tho I do have some ideas in mind to fix this. Altho, maybe you are referring to the fact that the bg behind the comic isn’t tiling down when you first enter the site and you can see the spiral bg between the brackets. This was an over-sight on my part, to my knowledge Jake has never posted a single panel comic that took up such minimal space, so I did not consider this in the design. It’s just an unfortunate coincidence that my new layout got implemented at the same time this event occurred. This shouldn’t be noticeable when the official comic resumes. As for the nav buttons, they were all quick-sketches meant only to be custom place holders, but ended up working their way into the final design. I have ideas for different designs, which may or may not get implemented, depending upon varies reasons. I hope this covered your concerns, even if it didn’t satisfy them. If you’re referring to a different bg issue, send me an e-mail at jaPoshi@wasteofink.com with maybe a screenshot so I can get a better idea of your problem. Altho, thank you for your input, and I’m glad you like the layout over-all. :3

Thanks to an e-mail I received, it was brought to my attention that that BG issue might have been unique to Mac users running Firefox. Either way, thanks to this individuals input, I have made some adjustments and hopefully resolved the problem for any and all. ^_^

The new design is great, but either I am not seeing it or you forgot to put up the TWC but… nevermind, just spotted it at the bottom of the right under the comment box. You should put a bigger button up with your other links on the side.

I’ve got a problem with the new design.
You have this “share” button that brings a drop-down whenever you hover over it. So when I finish reading a page I bring my cursor down, and far too often ESPECIALLY if I’m hitting the back button, it crosses that button and this huge drop-down covers up the buttons and I can’t click them.
It’s very annoying and should be removed, or at least wait until I click it.

Yeah, I run into the same issue with the “share” button over on School Bites, only theirs is right over the “next” button so I am even more likely to hit it than I am here.

I understand making it a mouseover item to save you a click opening it, but wish there was a way to make the mouseover delay a bit longer (is there?) so it only activates on a hover, rather than a passing-over.

The “share” button has been moved to a position that should solve the problem. I attempted to make it open only when clicked, but it wasn’t obeying the script for some reason. The protocol must be clashing with a different command. Until I find the cause of this disobedient button, I hope the simple change in placement is satisfactory for now.

Hey Jake want me to email you some bizarre and magical item ideas for the Land of Yeld RPG? Also another question for you
How, [when your not sick] Do you stay focused on the Comic? I started writing my novel and got one chapter at best [it’s like 1600 and change words] Then i’ve just kind of stopped. Any advice on how to stick with it?

How to stick with it? You just do it. I mean, I have no ideas, but I know it helps if I think of it as non-optional. I just do it in the same way that you go to work , eat or sleep. Sometimes you skip those things too, but most of the time you don’t.

And now everyone who doesn’t speak English… or Italian?… or who only speaks Latin, will wonder “what does a wolf have to do with this”.
I looked up lupus and two of the results (Translingual and Latin) was wolf, whereas English and Italian was… the intended joke.
So um.
The final state of lupus is becoming a werewolf, but nobody knows this because the government captures them and replaces them with identical doppelgangers, which is an OXYMORON. I’m onto you and your oxymorons, government!
…ORRRR, it’s because in ancient 18th century they thought it was caused by the bite of a wolf, WIKIPEDIA.
Man this is all nonsense. I’m gonna go sit in my closet.